Forget to Love Taiwan.

I had many chance to meet somebody who is interested in the difference between the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (台灣基督長老教會） and other splinter party form Protestantism, like Baptist, etc. I found it was hard to say in a clear way.

Last weekend, I was invited to join the worship of ashram, one of the parties of Protestantism. In that moment, I shared some point of view and had a chance to listen to others. They told me that they felt so proud that they win such beautiful victory in development of the numbers of lamb. It was a great job, I cannot deny. But when I thought of the numbers of lamb was unpeopled in my party, Presbyterian Church, I felt a little sad about that. Why? I have no answer. Is it really mean anything? I still don’t know.

But someone told me a great point that Presbyterian Church in Taiwan was admirable in aboriginality to find a way to pinyin Taiwanese, let the Taiwan people to know the gospel from Jesus. I felt a light from the top of the house shining in me. This was the answer that I found it. It was so ridiculous of being a member of Presbyterian Church; I thought that I lost the most important faith coming from antecessors of our party. They spend so much time to do this feat to care about our land, Taiwan. They wanted to missionize the gospel to more Taiwanese by translating the Bible and the verse from other language in Romanization to help us to enter the world of God and to understand the heaven was not so far away. This kind of passion infected some eldership paid their life or young time to guard our land. How shame of me to forget those great story and honour.

Yes, next time, I am sure that I can answer this kind of question like I just wrote before. We are different; because we care about this land, really love our Taiwan.

In 1950th of Taiwan, the eldership of Presbyterian Church denunciated the inequality in the Taiwan society, bearded the empire of the KMT government. The spirit was so strong and honoured for us to think and follow.

I thought that it was difficult to talk in the same slogan, like the independent of Taiwan. But we still don’t give up and draw rein to table a proposal in deal with the future of our land. We should continue to bring forth some growthmanship or other policy to develop the society and be beneficial to our country. That’s the way we have to do right now to honour our God.

The image above in it's original context on the page: Exhibit of Anatomia by Gerrit Parmele Judd, 1838.